fraeon
Films
BrowseTop 250
Series
TV ShowsAnimeTop 250 TVTop 100 Anime
Games
BrowseTop 100
Books
BooksMangaTop 125 BooksTop 100 Manga
For youTrendingTier ListsThe ArchiveLeaderboard
Log inSign up free
fraeon

Everything you watch, play and read — tracked, rated and remembered in one library.

Explore

  • Films
  • TV
  • Anime
  • Games
  • Books
  • Manga

Discover

  • Trending
  • Leaderboard
  • Find people
  • Lists
  • Tier lists

Company

  • Tour
  • About
  • Community guidelines
  • Privacy
  • Terms
  • Contact

© 2026 fraeon. All rights reserved. ·

Metadata from TMDB, RAWG, Jikan & Open Library. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

Questions or ideas? mehmet@avortas.com

HomeFeedProfile
Shadow play

Shadow play

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Organized crimeMurderPoliceInvestigationBill Slider (Fictitious character)
0.0
Open Library
Open Library

About this book

"When the body of a smartly-dressed businessman turns up in the yard of Eli Simpson's car workshop, DCI Bill Slider and his team soon surmise that the victim was someone's 'enforcer'. So who was Mr King? Who was he the muscle for? And what did he know that made someone decide to terminate the terminator?"--Publisher's description.

Themes & subjects

Organized crimeMurderPoliceInvestigationBill Slider (Fictitious character)Assassins

Setting

EnglandLondon

About the author

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

13 August 1948

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles was born on 13 August 1948 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, where was educated at Burlington School, a girls' charity school founded in 1699, and at the University of Edinburgh and University College London, where she studied English, history and philosophy. She had a variety of jobs in the commercial world, starting as a junior cashier at Woolworth's and working her way down to Pensions Officer at the BBC. She wrote her first novel while at university and in 1972 won the Young Writers' Award with The Waiting Game. The birth of the MORLAND DYNASTY series enabled Cynthia Harrod-Eagles to become a full-time writer in 1979. The series was originally intended to com…

Author

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Pages

336

Read time

≈ 8h

Editions

3

Language

English

Publisher

Canongate Books

ISBN

9781838850920

Where to buy

TR
Amazon Bookshop

Reviews

No reviews yet — be the first to write one from the Log screen.

Quotes

No quotes yet.

Discussions

Across media

The same story in other forms.

the film

Shadow Play

The Shadow Play

the series

The Shadow Play

Similar books

The Godfather

Detective and mystery stories · Organized crime

The Godfather

Mario Puzo

1969

Brighton rock

Fiction · Gangsters

Brighton rock

Graham Greene

1938

The Firm

Certified Public Accountants · bar examinations

The Firm

John Grisham

1991

The Client

suicide · Fifth Amendment

The Client

John Grisham

1993

A Gun for Sale

Fiction · Fiction in English

A Gun for Sale

Graham Greene

1936

The History of the Life of Jonathan Wild, the Great

Fiction · Criminals

The History of the Life of Jonathan Wild, the Great

Henry Fielding

1754

The Sicilian

Criminals · Detective and mystery stories

The Sicilian

Mario Puzo

1983

Omerta

Fiction · Organized crime

Omerta

Mario Puzo

2000

Nightmares & Dreamscapes

horror tales · metalepsis

Nightmares & Dreamscapes

Stephen King

1993

The Midnight Club

Fiction · Organized crime

The Midnight Club

James Patterson

1989

Columbo The Glitter Murder

Assassination · California

Columbo The Glitter Murder

William Harrington

1993

The Last Don

Criminals · Fiction

The Last Don

Mario Puzo

1996

Judge and jury

Organized crime · Women jurors

Judge and jury

James Patterson

2006

The miser

Fiction · Criminals

The miser

Henry Fielding

1733

A Study in Scarlet

Action & Adventure Fiction · aortic aneurysm

A Study in Scarlet

Arthur Conan Doyle

1887

The Hound of the Baskervilles

crime novel · English Civil War

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

1900

Преступление и наказание

English Translations · Russian literature

Преступление и наказание

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1866

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]

Classic Literature · Murder

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]

Arthur Conan Doyle

1892